The Latest Breaking News from LGH

A senior executive at the Launceston General Hospital has told a child abuse inquiry that she got most of her information about an investigation into paedophile nurse James Geoffrey Griffin from two podcasts.

The hospital supervisor of a notorious paedophile who worked in a children's ward has tearfully told an inquiry she was aware of him hugging young patients — but that it was "accepted by all staff" and in her opinion at the time something which could be addressed by "education".

In 2011, Kylee Pearn told the Launceston General Hospital that there was a child abuser working in the children's ward — she knew because he'd abused her years earlier. The paedophile, James Geoffrey Griffin, would continue working there for another eight years.

A witness tells a child abuse inquiry the Launceston General Hospital did not tell him the outcome of the investigation into his complaint, while a former chief executive apologises to the family of a young girl who alleged she was raped by a doctor.

A person who bought a laptop from now-notorious paedophile James Geoffrey Griffin decades ago alerted police of links to child exploitation websites and followed up after not hearing back, but nothing was done.

Two mental health treatment centres in Tasmania's north have closed due to COVID outbreaks — with a health union blasting what it says is a "lack of planning" and a parent fearing for those desperate for help.

Tasmania's coroner blames mismanagement of a baby's birth at the Launceston General Hospital for his death from brain damage two weeks later.

A mother increasingly frantic over what was happening to her daughter at a Tasmanian hospital says she called a child safety service because she did not know who else to turn to.

A coroner criticises the actions of staff at the Launceston General Hospital after a patient died just hours after being discharged — the latest in a series of damning findings, with the AMA warning the emergency department is "in crisis".

A coroner finds hospital staff "missed an opportunity" to correctly diagnose a Tasmanian woman's illness, resulting in her being discharged and later dying — but makes no recommendations in his coronial report.